Length7h 34m
About this audiobook
A tradition rooted in the mythology of romanticism and its conception of the artist as a cultural hero would want to believe that everything pertaining to the life of a genius has to bear the mark of the sublime.
Everything in their lives -gestures, decisions, personality traits, eccentricities, even the most dissonant mistakes- are thus transformed into esthetic substance. We would want their lives to be masterworks, a perfect coherence- and continuity between the work and its creator.
Roland Barthes has criticized this conception as a basically bourgeois aberration - the perennial realism of the bourgeois culture, its need to identify the signified with the signifier. And then we learn about the real human dimension of these heroes- their pettiness, narcissism, avariciousness, arbitrariness, and childishness, all of which are no more than their human specificity. We are scandalized; either the work or the figure lies.
A harmonious painting, a novel or masterful symphony cannot possibly be the product of a person capable of such spiritual smallness. Then we are left with two choices—to dismiss the work as an essentially hypocritical utterance, or to disqualify the creator as the accidental author of some work that happened to be marvelous but was simply by virtue of a great skill, not supported by an equally admirable human quality.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length7 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 1, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
30To respect without conceding
2LETTER TO ISOLDA
31IV. MY AUNT FRIDA
3LETTER TO FRIDA
32Loves and men
4I. CHILDHOOD AND FIRST MEMORIES
33“By my own right”
5Experiences will scar you
34Illness
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6Close relatives
35Hospital
7Cohabiting with genius
36Tastes and gender
8Loneliness and company
37Accident and destiny
9Children between two worlds
38Houses and portraits
10From the little house to the store
39V. MY UNCLE DIEGO
11To grow up in a different world
40Facing history
12Frida, the suffering?
41“I cannot love him for what he is not”
13“Laugh at death”
42Artist and politician
14II. FRIDA’S ORIGINS
43“The Bull” (Diego’s nickname in Europe)
15First official photographer of Porfirio Díaz
44The animals
16Presentiments that come true
45Political refugees
17A very special son-in-law
46VI. “THE FRIDOS ON THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF MASTER FRIDA KAHLO’S DEATH”
18III. MY MOTHER CRISTINA
47Ambiance in the Blue House
19“A few little stings”
48Clarifications by Rina Lazo
20Exposing life
49Getting to meet Frida and Rivera
21The art of being Kahlo
50Last months
22The farm
51Diego, the passionate
23Another school: the daily effort
52Frida, the love
24Care given to Frida during her last months
53VII. THE DEPARTURE
25Between disbelief and trust
54“Life is a big mess”
26The tree, the trunk, the branches
55“The best kept secret”
27Unfulfilled mothers
56GALLERY OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND DOCUMENTS
28Between the cross and the political meeting
57CHRONOLOGY
29Living together and family union
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